I think it is extremely important for atheists to talk about everything in life on line and outside our doors. There still are plenty of theists who paint us as one giant evil gang who love dictators. Certainly those numbers are in decline. But it is still important to even show our differences here too, especially in politics and economics, because we are just as diverse in those topics too.

We are never going to have a perfect planet where everyone agrees on everything all the time. But yea, it is important that long term it becomes less important.

In the Pern books by Anne McCaffrey the planet is settled by atheists and has no religion until someone invents one. It doesn't gain any traction but isn't going away either. Hopefully "we" will be discussing the parallels at some future date.

Unless Tibs finds a way to transfer his consciousness to the internet, no.

(May 19, 2019 at 11:27 pm)AFTT47 Wrote:

(May 19, 2019 at 10:41 pm)Shell B Wrote: To be fair, some of the folks who left started a metric fuck ton of threads. Just one of them leaving probably cut traffic in half. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but it would be nice to see more new threads, even if I'm not particularly into half a page of threads like, "Let's Talk About Me," "Do You Hate Me?," "Guess My Current Mental Illness/Excuse" and my favorite, "It's Everyone Else's Fault But Mine." I do enjoy substantive threads about people's personal lives, but I'm not into the blogging clogging the forum.

Yet the ownership caved into the most juvenal member's demands that they be allowed to post trash and click-bait. The ownership caved into the least common denominator. Is it really a surprise that many members went out seeking more adult conversation?

What the fuck are you talking about? We have a trash and click bait policy that drove people away?

(May 20, 2019 at 12:54 am)Fierce Wrote:

(May 19, 2019 at 11:34 am)Jehanne Wrote: Like the Great Red Spot, it seems like message posts are declining.

Yeah, the forum's dying. No surprise. We told them, we did.

Pfft. Oh, sage fortune teller, do tell us more.

(May 20, 2019 at 7:29 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: In the Pern books by Anne McCaffrey the planet is settled by atheists and has no religion until someone invents one. It doesn't gain any traction but isn't going away either. Hopefully "we" will be discussing the parallels at some future date.

Which Pern book is that in? She wrote quite a few, of course.

(May 20, 2019 at 6:31 pm)Jehanne Wrote:

(May 20, 2019 at 7:29 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: In the Pern books by Anne McCaffrey the planet is settled by atheists and has no religion until someone invents one. It doesn't gain any traction but isn't going away either. Hopefully "we" will be discussing the parallels at some future date.

Which Pern book is that in?  She wrote quite a few, of course.

Don't remember which one, read it years ago. I'll fish through the 'net. BRB

(May 20, 2019 at 8:40 am)Shell B Wrote:

(May 19, 2019 at 11:27 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: Yet the ownership caved into the most juvenal member's demands that they be allowed to post trash and click-bait. The ownership caved into the least common denominator. Is it really a surprise that many members went out seeking more adult conversation?

What the fuck are you talking about? We have a trash and click bait policy that drove people away?

You very briefly had a policy prohibiting click bait. You redacted it in a matter of days because a bunch of whiners who like to post click bait complained about it.

Minimalist probably generated 30% of all posts. He’s not been back since he was temp banned.

I like Min, but to be fair he posted pretty much the same 3 threads 3,759 times. So really it looks like we have a lot less traffic but most of it was Min talking to himself.